Windows Mobile is dead, new Linux mobile OS from Samsung

“So far Samsung has been pretty platform agnostic, merrily
churning out phones for any open mobile OS available, with unifying
TouchWiz interface on top. But now it seems that Samsung has
started working on their own Linux based mobile OS. According to
Mobile Review:

“(Samsung is) now working on a vertical Linux-based solution of
their own, using their proprietary TouchWiz interface to tie up
various platforms and prepare themselves for the upcoming
Linux-powered devices… Samsung might be a little late (with
their mobile Linux OS effort), but through various marketing tricks
is covering it up. For now Samsung is spreading it’s widgets
to phones and netbooks, but it is too early to call it fully
vertically integrated solution.

“Ok. Pretty clear statement. Samsung missed the boat 2006-2007
when Nokia, Apple and Google started working on the next generation
mobile OSes, with close integration integration between devices,
their software and cloud services. But now it has seen the light
and is furiously trying to catch up. TouchWiz UI is the basis and
starting point, but we will see a Samsung’s own full fledged
Linux based mobile OS in the next year or two.”

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